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  • 319 (304) v South Africa, Chennai 26 Mar 2008

    7 18.92%
  • 309 (375) v Pakistan, Multan 28 Mar 2004

    7 18.92%
  • 293 (254) v Sri Lanka, Mumbai (BS) 2 Dec 2009

    1 2.70%
  • 254 (247) v Pakistan, Lahore 13 Jan 2006

    1 2.70%
  • 201*(231) v Sri Lanka, Galle 31 Jul 2008

    3 8.11%
  • 195 (233) v Australia, Melbourne 26 Dec 2003

    5 13.51%
  • 180 (190) v West Indies, Gros Islet 10 Jun 2006

    0 0%
  • 155 (221) v Australia, Chennai 14 Oct 2004

    1 2.70%
  • 151 (236) v Australia, Adelaide 24 Jan 2008

    3 8.11%
  • 83 (68) v England, Chennai 11 Dec 2008

    9 24.32%
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Thread: Weapon of Ball Destruction - [[-¤--^ V I R U ^--¤-]]

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    Sehwag - Mature and perhaps more dangerous now: The Times of India

    Statistics do not begin to describe the effects of the primal fury of Sehwag's batting. But his career graph has been more enigmatic than effective. Coaches have struggled to put a finger on his style, but that's their problem. Perhaps unfairly, Sehwag has also often been accused of lacking perspective.

    All that is now set to change. A dull and meaningless Test was lit up as Viru, for seven hours, made the format of the game irrelevant. As Rahul Dravid said, "Sehwag played over 360 degrees", executing all the shots in the book, and some not in the book.

    So successfully did he combat Harris' negative line that the bowler soon switched to bowling round the wicket. Perhaps he just found it too humiliating to be repeatedly dispatched to the fence by a Sehwag batting left-handed, for all practical purposes.

    True to his character, Sehwag tried to bring up his hundred with a six, but the ball dropped short. He lofted Makhaya Ntini again when on 193 and hit a six again when on 291. Which other frontline batsman would have the courage to lash two fours and a six in the last over before tea?

    Twice now, he has gone where no other Indian batting legend has dared to tread — the 300-run club — putting him at par with the likes of Brian Lara and Don Bradman, the only others with two scores of 300 or more in Tests.

    Playing only his third Test since making a comeback on the tour of Australia, Sehwag has not quite got the respect he deserves before this, although his match-winning prowess has been praised by many. His career has blown hot and cold over the past two years, and questions over his form, fitness and commitment gradually shifted the focus away from his rare eye-body coordination, his skilled strokeplay and his improvised ease against quality attacks.

    The signs were there in the last Test at Adelaide that Sehwag had matured into an adaptable plunderer when he saved a Test match. Sehwag is now leaner, meaner, fit enough to brave the Chennai heat for more than seven hours, run the singles hard without flinching once, or showing signs of cramping. As a batsman who has revelled in all conditions and was eager to state his case, Chennai was a nightmare waiting to happen for Graeme Smith's men. The barrage of boundaries left them bereft of ideas.

    From being captaincy material to vice-captain to losing his place in both Tests and ODIs to regaining his spot in Australia, Friday's knock, the definitive stamp of his creative genius, brings Viru's career full circle. And now questions are being raised — is he among the all-time batting greats? Well, perhaps he is.

    http://www.zeenews.com/Newspapers/20...33295news.html
    “Genius begins great works; labour alone finishes them.” - Joseph Joubert

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    CRICKET CORNER -- Bob Simpson Column

    Sehwag - the plus & the minus points

    IS he as good as Sachin? This is probably the most asked question of me since I have been in India. The 'He', is of course Virender Sehwag and the question to me is irrelevant and not in the best interest of Virender.

    In Australia it has almost been the kiss of death for youngsters to be labelled another Bradman. It has been a cross which has destroyed many talented youngsters and it is equally as dangerous to compare Indian batsmen with Tendulkar. It is particularly tough on batsmen such as Sehwag who is comparatively new to Indian cricket.

    Obviously, he is an exciting youngster whose exhilarating style has caught the imagination of the public. But, can this uninhibited approach allow him to maintain the consistency that is necessary to carve out a long career at the highest level? Make no mistake about it, every bowler in world cricket will be analysing this question and what he can do about it.

    That is the way of bowlers and it has been going on since the game evolved. These days it is much easier with cable television, videos and the technical gadgets which allow you to analyse an opponent better than ever before.

    Even now bowlers throughout the world will be exchanging mails with their thoughts on how to stop the flow of runs from this new wonder. It is nothing new and the bowlers' grapevine is one of the most efficient gatherer of information in the world.

    This is why the general consensus of opinion is, never evaluate the future of batsmen in their first year. Bowlers haven't had the time to evaluate and work out tactics in the first year and it is now accepted that the second season is the most important one for young batsmen.

    For, it is then bowlers will have assessed the strengths and weaknesses of this new young threat and formed a strategy as to how to nullify the strengths and take advantage of his weaknesses.

    What will this initial appraisal reveal?

    Obviously, Sehwag has great natural ability with wonderful timing and a penchant to play square of the wicket on the off-side. He is a beautiful striker of the ball on the off and loves to be aggressive.

    These are the positive points but where is he vulnerable?

    Firstly, because he likes to hit the ball square on the off he likes to give himself room and against the quicks too often plays back in the line of leg stump. This means he can be tied up with well directed deliveries on middle and leg.

    Also, from this position his strength can also be his weakness if the bowler bowls a correct length and moves the ball towards the slips.

    Any batsman like Sehwag who hits so many balls behind point both from the back and front foot must open the face of the bat and thus give the bowler a chance with the ball that moves away.

    In addition, Sehwag's movement towards leg stump must make him more vulnerable to the short-pitched delivery. He hasn't been worked over in this area as yet, but I am sure on the quicker wickets of South Africa the quicks will give his ribs a working over. He prospered against the Windies spinners in Mumbai where they gave him plenty of room to hit the ball in his favourite area.

    Shane Warne and company will have noted this and will bowl a middle and leg line and probably drop mid-off deep. They will block this area, for Sehwag always tries to loft the ball when he is restricted by the spinners.

    Such a line will force Sehwag to play more to the leg, an area which is not his favourite and may lead him to hit dangerously across the line.

    All this sounds simple, doesn't it? How will Sehwag react to all this and will the bowlers be able to bowl to such a plan knowing that to err and stray outside the off will play to Sehwag's strength?

    Personally, I think he will have to tighten up his technique and ball selection. At present he is playing incredible shots to balls not suitable to the stroke and which contain a very high level of danger.

    He won't always get away with slicing just short of a driving length balls through point with half a blade. And on quicker wickets these strokes will easily lead to catches behind the wicket.

    As I re-read this assessment, I can't help but think I would have said the same things about South Africa's great left-hander Graeme Pollock.

    Pollock made the small changes necessary and became one of the finest batsmen ever.

    I will be fascinated to watch Virender's progress in the next 12 months.

    Sometimes I wonder whether English cricket can see the wood for the trees. Their captain Nasser Hussain's recent quote backs this feeling up.

    His latest gem is, "There are field settings and tactics you can beat Australia with. It's up to me and the coach to work that out as soon as possible." Talk about putting the horse before the cart.

    With any theory or tactic you should have the bowlers to back them up. I don't think they have such bowlers. I wonder whether the computer which English cricket is so fond of these days or a PR Man is writing Nasser's script.

    http://www.hinduonnet.com/tss/tss2544/25440260.htm
    “Genius begins great works; labour alone finishes them.” - Joseph Joubert

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    After Viv Richards, its Sehwag
    Top glamorous heroines, top comedian, Oscar winning MD, commercial Director, expensive wig and other big list of commercial items irunthum thaathaa padam flop .. itha vida enna asingam venum ..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anban
    After Viv Richards, its Sehwag

    Few better match-winners than Sehwag, says Kapil
    - Viv the only other batsman with same approach: World Cup-winning captain


    Calcutta: Kapil Dev’s sixes-record, for India in Tests, has gone for a six. He’s far from disappointed, though.

    “A record is meant to be re-written and I’m happy that somebody as devastating as (Virender) Sehwag has broken mine... In fact, till people began talking about it, I didn’t even know the old one was in my name,” India’s lone World Cup-winning captain told The Telegraph.

    Speaking on Monday, the day after Sehwag smashed past 61 sixes, stopping at No. 64, Kapil added: “The only other batsman with the same approach that I can think of is Viv (Richards)... Sachin Tendulkar has changed his game, he’s more cautious now... (Mahendra Singh) Dhoni has done much the same... Sehwag, on the other hand, is more aggressive than before.”

    Laughing, he quipped: “I’d been expecting Sachin or Sourav Ganguly to hold the sixes-record... Had he not changed his game, Sachin’s tally would surely have been 100-plus (instead of 47)... Sourav too could hit big and very clean.”

    Besides a great hand-eye co-ordination, Sehwag’s bindaas approach makes the difference. “It’s his intent which is special... He’s not bound by circumstances... How many have got to 300 with a six (in Multan, early 2004)? But, then, that’s Sehwag,” lauded Kapil.

    Reflecting on the Chennai Test, won dramatically by Team India, he said: “When the chase began, I didn’t give Dhoni and Co. more than a 10 per cent chance... (MoM) Sehwag, however, changed everything... It’s almost unreal that somebody can change the course of a match within 68 balls... What an innings of 83! Our chance of winning, in my opinion, straightaway jumped to 60 per cent... Yes, there have been greater batsmen than Sehwag, but few better match-winners...”

    Kapil signed off by saying: “Irrespective of what else he achieves, Sehwag will be remembered for giving the position of an opener such a new dimension... He has, single-handedly, changed the rules of the game and his place in history seems assured.”

    Indeed, and as Kevin Pietersen has learnt, it doesn’t pay to underestimate an opposition which has Sehwag in the XI.

    http://www.telegraphindia.com/108121...y_10258509.jsp
    "Sehwag is the most destructive modern cricketer, There is no doubt abt it. He is just so destructive. He is totally fearless"-Viv Richards

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    MAN OF THE MATCH
    Virender Sehwag


    There must have been very few times when a batsman — Andrew Strauss — who scored hundreds in both innings of a Test gets ignored for the Man of the Match award; when Sachin Tendulkar scored a hundred and yet doesn’t bag the prize. But such was the impact of Virender Sehwag’s entertaining 83 on the fate of this game that it you just coudn’t but admit that this, indeed, was the defining moment of the game. As skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni rightly said after the match, till Viru’s 68-ball blitzkerig, India were only defending in this game. Thanks to that wonderful knock, the hosts were always looking at victory on the final day. Incidentally,
    "Sehwag is the most destructive modern cricketer, There is no doubt abt it. He is just so destructive. He is totally fearless"-Viv Richards

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    arumai arumai!!
    em Chennai! yaam vaazhum pon Chennai!
    viral ayinthum theendamal vegamattom!
    thazhthalum sangathigal vizhthalum!
    thaai mannil sagamal sagamattom!! -- Saagum Varai CSK

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    NOV...
    "Sehwag is the most destructive modern cricketer, There is no doubt abt it. He is just so destructive. He is totally fearless"-Viv Richards

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    Quote Originally Posted by sourav
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    NOV...
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    Illa LM... naan than NOV kitta cc-la solli enable panna sonnen.... check cc...:P
    "Sehwag is the most destructive modern cricketer, There is no doubt abt it. He is just so destructive. He is totally fearless"-Viv Richards

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    "Sehwag is the most destructive modern cricketer, There is no doubt abt it. He is just so destructive. He is totally fearless"-Viv Richards

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